Re: HOWTO: Install Edgy 6.10 from an .iso file

Originally Posted by pinkertime

Hi John,
thank you for your fast replay. But the problem is not to find the .iso, because the installation mounts it correctly, and I can browse it in /cdrom. The problem is the second step, when the installation trays to read the device.

But the iso is correctly found and mounted! I don't understand, if I can browse the cdrom it has to be readable...

Re: HOWTO: Install Edgy 6.10 from an .iso file

I think to have understood why the procedure does not work for me. The installer, that is a debian installer, supports only installation from a /boot directory with an ext2 or ext3 file system (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/piper...il/000289.html)
But my /boot file system is reiserfs. Could you confirm my hypothesis?

Re: HOWTO: Install Edgy 6.10 from an .iso file

Originally Posted by pinkertime

I think to have understood why the procedure does not work for me. The installer, that is a debian installer, supports only installation from a /boot directory with an ext2 or ext3 file system (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/piper...il/000289.html)
But my /boot file system is reiserfs. Could you confirm my hypothesis?

Hi pinkertime,

The below lines are from the ./var/lib/dpkg/info/iso-scan.postinst file contained within the initrd.gz file:

# Load up every filesystem known to man. The drive could have anything.
FS="ext2 ext3 reiserfs fat vfat xfs iso9660 hfsplus hfs ntfs"

as far as I know it should support reiserfs.

Does your machine have a physical cd-rom drive with another CD in the tray?

Re: HOWTO: Install Edgy 6.10 from an .iso file

I wish I could get to step 9 to fail. I can't even get it to load with GRUB. Whenever I try I get an error 15 cannot mount. I double checked that its the right partition and I even formatted the partition as ext3 just in case that was the problem, but nothing has worked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.